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\ \ Switch off when not in use - the luxury of renting!\ \ Illapa\ \ 14th June 2022\ \ technology \ \ If done properly, moving to the cloud allows organisations to increase the utilisation of their workloads whilst simultaneously reducing the cost. Substituting a traditional up-front CapEx model with a more efficient pay-as-you-use OpEx approach can offer significant advantages. However, when building workloads in the cloud, it's critical to take control of the economics of this chosen approach. It’s important to think beyond, what looks like on the surface, to be a pricing advantage for a Server over it being on-prem in a datacentre. We believe organisations need to investigate how to effectively use services to lower their cloud costs.](/content/resources/blog/62a8a02074fcc9448fc51675/index.html)

\ \ Get aggressive with Reserved Instances\ \ Illapa\ \ 14th June 2022\ \ technology \ \ My last post talked about over provisioning as a factor to wasted cloud spend. Reserving instances can reduce your cloud spend by circa 30%, so sticking with rolling monthly workloads could be another big contributor to the issue.\ \ An apparent lack of ability to identify whether the workload is transient or perpetual generally means administrators are too slow in buying reserved instances. To be clear, a reserved instance is a Cloud vendors way of lowering the cost of infrastructure in exchange for an annual commitment.](/content/resources/blog/62a8a09674fcc9448fc51676/index.html)

\ \ Bring order to over-provisioning in the cloud\ \ Illapa\ \ 14th June 2022\ \ technology \ \ Old habits die hard! Historically, IT departments had to build systems that were big enough to handle peak demand, and also be relevant to the business throughout the depreciation cycle. As a result IT estates were typically over sized, and virtual machines over provisioned for the current workload, and apart from the initial capital expenditure the only real penalty for this approach was the cost of space and power.](/content/resources/blog/62a8a11d74fcc9448fc51677/index.html)

\ \ Multi-cloud management & cloud cost management as a service\ \ Illapa\ \ 14th June 2022\ \ technology \ \ Discover\ \

Any cloud, Public or Private\ \ Optimise Public Cloud Spend\ \
Resource Management (Dynamically Resize VMs)\
Cost Management (Rolling to Reserved Instance)\ \ Manage](/content/resources/blog/62a8a1e074fcc9448fc51678/index.html)

\ \ illapa – A Cloud Management Platform for MSPs\ \ Illapa\ \ 14th June 2022\ \ technology \ \ As organisations of all shapes and sizes continue to adopt more disparate and complex multi-cloud environments the need for a single, all-seeing Cloud Management Platform (CMP) becomes paramount. IT teams are required to guarantee performance and service levels, enforce governance and control costs, and without a CMP providing absolute visibility across the Enterprise this is nigh on impossible.](/content/resources/blog/62a8a23174fcc9448fc51679/index.html)

\ \ CISO’s – Stop investing blindly in security, and look in the shadows!\ \ Illapa\ \ 14th June 2022\ \ technology \ \ A lot is being asked of IT these days, none more so than of those sat in the CISO's seat; given GDPR, ISO27001 and other compliance-centric frameworks, how you secure your data has never been so important. Too many companies, from start-up’s to enterprises will continue to throw time, people and money at the latest security application that promises to protect their data, without a second thought into Shadow IT, what effect it has if uncontrolled and what it could mean for the wider business. These discussions are simply not taking place anywhere near enough at board meetings, 'huddles' or that long overdue chat over a coffee. Certainly, in my experience and from those I've spoken to within the security arena.](/content/resources/blog/62a8a2bf74fcc9448fc5167a/index.html)

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